Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 311, 16 September 1909 — Page 1

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TH ANT SUN-TELEGRAM. oivxxxrvv no. 311. RICHMOND. INU., mURSDAY EVENIXti, SEPTEMBER 16, 190J). SINGLE COPY, 9 CENTS. IS RULE0 AGAINST Court Refuses to Grant New MARDI GRAS EVE

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GREAT 0VAT1QU GIVE!! PRESIDEHT Oil HIS ARRIVAL Chicago Crowds Line the Streets and Loudly Cheer The Smiling and Bowing Head of the Nation.

New Cruiser for the Growing Japanese Navy A SPECIAL EVEUT OF THE FESTIVAL - Trial to the John Wadsworth Case. 1. V,S.Uii? v:-.2J

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'CHILDREN SING AND 1 WAVE THEIR FLAGS Last Evening Taft Imitates Roosevelt and Takes Down The Big Stick, in Behalf of ;Ballinger.

(American Nw5i Service) Chicago, Sept. 16. President Taft arrived here at 11:15 today on time, and was immediately taken in charge by the reception committee and then began a strenuous day. There were great throngs at the station and a voir 'ley of cheers greeted the chief executive as he emerged from the' Mayflower. ' The police bad a hard time keeping the crowds back. The streets from station to hotel were lined with school jchildren waving small flags and singling songs. The president, with hla .face wreathed in smiles and hat in . band, bowed from right to left, again mnd again. , TAFT USES BIG STICK. Albany, N. Y., Sept. 16. "Shreds of suspicion - without substantial evidence," is the characterization of the charge ; preferred against Secretary r&allinger, by L. R. Glavis, chief of the 'field division of the general land office. The president in a statement made public here last night, not only exonerates bis cabinet officer and other department officials, but grants the rejquest of Secretary Balllnger for authorlty to diamlaa Glavis from the serJ!dc.:rt;i;'li ' The specif io charge will be "for un4 uslly. inipeMbJng Jtbe. ofic 'of his superior officer," but in reality, Glavis loses bis official bead by reason iof his activity in the Ballinger-Pin-chot dispute, his chief offense being in going over the head of his superior offioer, and writing a letter attacking his policy in connection with coal land 'claims in Alaska. v In this connection the president iinakes it plain that "evidence, not ru'mors," will be the slogan of his administration. He grants that a subordifnate is doing hiB duty to inform him if fh knows bus superior is defrauding 'the government, but, says the president makes a charge against his chief (founded upon mere suspicions and in this statement he fails to give his chief kha benefit of circumstances within his knowledge that would his chiefs action proper his separation therefrom 'becomes a necessity." Findings In Form of Letter. j The findings of President Taft are In the form of a letter to . Secretary Palllnger, which he wrote before leaving hla summer home at Beverly, and which, as heretofore stated, was made jwblic here tonight. The president states that the report, or charges, of Glavis also reflect upon Assistant Secretary Pierce, Commissioner Dennett nd Chief of Field Service Schwartz. By insinuation and inuendo as well as by direct averment, Glavis is shown to have made charges that each of these officials has taken steps to aid the Cunningham claimants to secure patents based on claims that they know, tor have reason to believe, are fraudulent and unlawful. The president here states that in the teal of Glavis to convict Balllnger, Pierce. Dennett and Schwartz, Gal vis did not give htm (the president) the benefit of information which he had that would have thrown light on the transactions, showing them .to be consistent with an impartial attitude on the part of not only Balllnger, but the other officials. The president reviews the connection of Secretary Balllnger with the Cunningham claims as an attorney for which he received $230 after he had resigned as commissioner of the land office under President Roosevelt, as follows "The inference which Mr. Glavis seeks to have drawn to your discredit in this connection is that you, while commissioner of the general land office, came into possession of facts concerning the so-called Cunningham group of coal lands claims which made It improper for you to use such facts after your resignation in the course of securing the patents. "I find the fact to be that as commissioner you acquired no knowledge in respect to the claims except that of the most formal character and nothing vrhich was not properly known to your clients when they consulted you. The evidence in respect to which you were consulted professionally was not secured by Mr. Glavis until after your resignation as commissioner of the - general land office. Real Attitude of Balllnger. Coming down to the present time the President's letter is as follows: ' "The record overwhelmingly estab lishes that, expressly because of your previous service as counsel to one of t claimants, from the time van en-

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secretary of the interior until the present day you have studiously declined to nave any connection wnaiever witu the Cunningham claims.' or to exercise any control over the course of the department in respect to those claims; that you have said so in written and verbal communications to your subordinates and to the claimants themselves. Conditions Add Proof. "The truth is, that had you, or Commissioner Dennett or Chief of Field Service Schwartz during the years of the pendency of these claims, been desirous, through dishonest methods and without regard to law and interests of the public, the opportunities for you to have done so were many; and the circumstance that speakB, not more conclusively than many others, but still most emphatically against the accusatory statements of Mr. Glavis, is

the fact that though his conviction ' Vnen tne lacts are examinea m mis that the cliams were fraudulent or i!- regard," it will be found that the perlegal was well known in the depart- sons responsible for the circulation of ment, he was allowed, during all the these charges have done you cruel invfl&rs of the nendenev of these claims. Justice. . ; ?. ; i, -

to remain in charge of them as an agent of the department, when it would have been easy for either you or Dennett or Schwartz to remove him to Portland or elsewhere, and thus take the claims out of his jurisdiction. "Instead of this, with the consent and acquiescence of every officer whose corrupt motives in respect 4.0 these claims he now asserts, Glavis has remained continuously in control of the taking of evidence with respect to the claims, and only when the claims were about to be submitted to hearing before a tribunal was,, it thought necessary (Mr. Glavis not hav-

E. M. Haas is One of the Speakers

Gary, Ind., Sept . 16. Commercial clubs from various parts of the state are represented at the annual gathering of Indiana Federated Commercial clubs, in session here. The first meeting was called to order at 9 o'clock this morning, when matters of interest to the various organizations was discussed. The delegates visited the mills of the Indiana Steel Company this afternoon. All arrangements have been completed for the banquet at the Binzenhoff hotel tonight at which three hundred guests will be present. Among the speakers is E. M. Haas, of Richmond, whose subject will be "The Need of State Organization of Commercial Clubs.' " "

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ing had any professional experience,! to give them in charge of Mr. Sheridan, a lawyer, whose good faith and earnestness in opposing the patenting of the claims, even Mr. Glavis had not the temerity to question. "At the' same time this charge was made by former Governor Pardee, there appeared in the public press, in a telegram which seems to have had the widest circulation, a statement quoted from a Montana paper that a water power company with a capital of $10,COO,000, had in the interval between the order of restoration and tha order of withdrawal, located and obtained vested rights in 15.C0O acres of land in Montana, which absourbed for the company all the valuable water power sites in that state; and the statement was accompanied by detailed reference to the particular land office and the particular agent through whom this result was accomplished. "The story as to the 15,000 acres in Montana, circulated by publication In the newspapers, when - presented by Governor Pardee, was reduced to 15S acres near the Missouri river, in Montana, or four tracts of forty acrea each, and it now turns out from examination of the records that these filings were re-filings of entries made ten years before; that the re-filings were made in the 11th of June, 1909, more than two weeks after the withdrawal of the water power sites in Montana, and that the four tracts of forty acres each filed upon, has no water power sites on them at alL"

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Dr. Wakefield Memorial Service

The rector, church wardens and vestrymen of St. Paul's church have arranged for a public service in honor and loving memory of the late Rev. Dr. John B. Wakefield, at 10:30 a m., next Sunday, September 19, to which they now invite all the congregation of the parish, and all other citizens of Richmond, among whom the deceased clergyman passed more than thirty years of his life. The service will be one of christian appreciation of a long and useful life. The vestry will present a tribute of esteem and addresses will be made by Rector Huntington and Dr. J. Everist CathelL The choir is preparing appropriate and familiar hymns and songs of praise. A committee, composed of the vestry and also of a number of men and women who were identified with Dr. Wakefield's ministry, will decorate the church for the occasion, and a memorial leaflet for use at the service and for a keepsake, Is being prepared. The committee is composed aa-foHowar"' Mrs. J. B. Craighead, Mrs. James E. Reeves, Mrs. J. Everist Cathell, Mrs. County Treasurer Says They Are Always Prompt in Paying Tax. " THEY OBSERVE THE LAW "Of all the nationalities who have paid tax here since I have been in office, the Germans are the most prompt and usually pay their taxes at the-Spring installment," stated County Treasurer Albert Albertson, this morning. Mr. Albertson did not like to say which nationality Is the least prompt in payment of taxes. The German residents of the city, who perhapB, own the greater amount of property, as a rule, pay their taxes promptly and in one Instead of two payments, as the law allows, and the last of which comes due Monday, November 1. However, .the few who cannot afford to meet the tax payment in the spring are prompt in meeting the assessment which comes due in the fall. Already Mr. Albertson has sold several tax receipts for the fall assessment of taxes and in nearly every instance the purchaser was a german. USE AN OLD RECORD A probate rcord book of 1831 and 1832 was resurrected from the stock room of the court house this morning by County ClerR Harry E. Penny that a transcript of the settlement of the estate of Jesse Small, by the administrator Abner Small, might be prepared for Grant county authorities. The records are of interest chiefly because of their age. Much the same manner of keeping records was used in those days as at present, with the exception that the early records were more voluminous and written in pen and Ink. AFFECTS THE TREES The beautiful shade trees of Richmond, for which the Quaker City is noted, are dying with alarming rapidity. Within the past week it bas been necessary to cut down a number of magnificent shade spreaders In tbe north and east ends. The trees seem to be infested with a peculiar kind of disease that baffles local foresters. It is unusual for this time of year It la said, when the trees are supposed, to

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1 VJ- V" 5 Yaryan, Mrs. Julia Gaar, Mrs. Flor ence Lodwick, Mrs. Van Heusen, Mrs. Tinney, Miss Kate VanDusen, Miss Laura Gaston, Mrs. Anna Bennett. Mrs, Lewis Hampton, Mrs. W. F. Starr, Mrs. Demas Coe, Mrs. S. E, Swayne, Mrs. C. W. Morgan, Mrs. P. C. Graff, Mrs. Buhl, Mrs. Zaccheus Test, Mrs. W. B. Bell, Mrs. A. G. Ogborn, Mrs. J. W. Romey, Mrs. T. H. Ed munds, Mrs Daisy Vaughan, Mrs. Jeannette Gaar Leeds. Mrs. John Y, Poundstone, Miss Elizabeth Jones, Mrs. J. Fred King, Mrs. Alma Denton. Mrs, Harry Gennett, Mrs. Eugene Price, Mrs. J, T. Caseley, Mrs. Ml A. Kiel horn, Mrs. E. R. Beatty. Mrs. Geo. B. Dougan. Miss Maria J. McGrew, Clements W. Ferguson, John F. Miller, Joseph S. Zeller, We Sl McGrew, J, M. Coe, S. S. Strattan, Sr., Frank Ed munds, W. Piatt Robinson, A. W. Reed. The Vestry John Lv Rupe, W. F. Starr, Church Wardens; S. E. Swayne, F. M. Nixon; Nettleton Neff. S. SL Strattan, Jr., H. R. Robinson, C W. Elmer, Milton B. Craighead. SHE ASKS DIVORCE Mrs. Julia Kortwright Brings Serious Charge Against Her Husband. PETlflONS FOR ALIMONY Suit for divorce was filed in the circuit court yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Julia Kortwright, through her attorneys, Freeman and Freeman, against Harvey Kortwright. The averments in the complaint are that the husband is guilty of adultery. Mrs. Kortwright asks the custody of her three children, Hidus. aged 10 years, Dolorer, aged 2 years, and Malcomb, aged 9 months, and also alimony to be paid each week for the support of the children. The counle yere married in this city in April, 1898. DOUGAN HORSES WIN George Dougan cf the Reidston stock farm, carried off three prizes at the horse show of the Eaton fair yesterday. Francis R. and Elizabeth B. Hall took first premiums and Baron Mobelle took a second premium. Mr. Dougan will exhibit another horse today which is said to be a prize winner. PURCHASES A PLANT (American News Servic) Sterling Ills., Sept. 16. The Armour Packing company of Chicago, has purchased the plant of the Illinois Straw products company of this city for $93,000. The Armour company will make all of its paper and strawboard here. HOPES SAVE VOICE Harry Paris, of Muncie, who is well known in this city, having assisted In several musicals, has gone to Klrksville. Mo., for treatment for rheumatism. It is feared that he will lose his voice. . -. JAMES GLOIHS HOME James Gloins, manager of a local business who has been absent from the city for several weeks, has returned with his family from a trip to

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WILL RENDER JUDGMENT

Judge Fox, of the circuit court, over ruled the motion of Shireley and Shiveley for a new trial in the case of the state ex rel Ida Wadsworth against John Wadsworth. this morning. He also announced that be would render Judgment tomorrow morning. The case was tried before a jury in the circuit court, early in August and a verdict for the plaintiff was returned. The plain tiff, in her complaint asked for $10 damages from her husband on the ground that he had contracted mar riage with her In order to prevent bas tardy proceedings. It is probable that the case will be appealed to a higher court. FAREWELL DIIEA WAS GIVEII TODAY Tribute Paid by Divines to Ministers Who Will Leave The City. SERVED AT THE Y. M. C. A. RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET OVER LEAVE-TAKING WERE PRE PARED AND WERE UNANIMOUS LY ADOPTED. Members of the Ministerial associa tion gave a farewell dinner this aft ernoon at 1 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A. Spa. in honor of Rev. If. II. Keatea. former pastor of South Eighth Street Friends church, who goes to Des Moines. Iowa. Rev. R. H. Dunaway, who has resigned as pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, to go to Glaseow. Scotland in the Interests of the'Whltewater Presbytery, "Rev. G."15:t Harsh, former pastor of the Second English Lutheran church, who has accepted a position at Columbus, Ind., and Rev. Morton Hobson, who has resigned as pastor of the United Brethren church, to become pastor of a congregation of that denomination at Newport, Kentucky. A several course dinner was served, following which, the ministers adjourned to the Y. M. C. A. chapel and enjoyed a long chat. Several min Liters spoke and expressed regret that the guests of honor were to leave. An earnest Invitation was extended for their return whenever they saw fit. Resolutions expressing confidence in the success of the ministers in their new fields, were drawn np and unanimously adopted. There were about twenty-five ministers present. OFFICERS ELECTED The board of directors of tbe Richmond Loan and Savings association, held its annual meeting last evening and elected officers and directors for the next three years. The officers elected were as follows: George Bishop, president; L. S. Gay, vice president; W. F. Piehl, secretary; John F. Meerhoff, treasurer; B. F. Harris, attorney. The financial committee will be B. F. WIssJer, L. S. Gay and G. Meyers. The appraising committee named was John Runge, A. H. Schroeder, and W. Helger. A dividend of 5 per cent was declared for the past year. G. L. Meyers. B. F. Wissler and A. H. Schroeder were elected directors for tbe following three years. BOYS CAR COMPANY (American News Service) Pittsburg, Pa.. Sept 16 The Standard Steel Car Company of this city has purchased from the receiver, the Baltimore Car &. Foundry company works, located on Curtis Bay, according to vice-President Brady of the Standard company. The Baltimore concern employs about 3,000 men and was placed in the hands of a receiver during the financial depression in 1907. THIS WAS PAY D1Y Employes of the Pennsylvania rail road wore the elastic smile today for this is tbe one day in the month when everybody is happy. Pay day explains It. A continuous stream of employes visited the pay car during tbe morn ing and pocketed the little white envelopes with a smile of satisfaction on their beaming countenances. Tbe pay car went to Logansport from here. THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANA Fair and

It Will Be Miniature Philadel

phia New Years' Celebration and New Orleans Midwinter Pageant. LIBERAL PRIZES TO BE OFFERED PARADERS Plans for Decoratina Citv Have Been Completed and Will Make Richmond Pleasing Sight to See. What tbe New Year's eve eeUbration is to Philadelphia and what tha mid-winter celebration at New Orleans is to that city, he Fall Festival association intends to make the Mardl Oraa celebration. Friday, October 8. to this city. Plans for Mardl Gras night celebration were completed last evenIng by the committee In charge. Including William Reller, chairman. Arthur Burr and Wilfred Jeasup. and have been approved by the executive committee. Tbe ending of the fall festival displays this year will leave nothing but a sweet taste la the mouths of all citizens and give working capital to the association for the 101O celebration. Mardl Gras nlgbt will be principally one of parade, fireworks display, dance and final review of the different exhibits. It should prove to be the biggest night of the celebration, from the standpoint of attendance and enthusiasm. Night of Fun-making. One will be permitted to do almost anything on this night so long as ha keeps within tbe bounds of propriety. In fact every one la expected to enter into the spirit of the affair and participate in tbe fun-making. Thesflrat feature of the evening will be the Tafitastle parade: Prises offer ed for costumes and the largest nambers tn the parade Insure that It will be two or three times as large as the parade of last year, which was one of the distinctive features of the 1008 festival. Everyone In the parade will wear some costume. The parade will form In line about 7:30 o'clock and-march np Main street' to the fire works display: the location of which has not as yet been decided. Tbe fire works display-will be the most brilliant of any ever seen In this city. Following this display, the crowds will be at liberty to go to the several exhibits, which will be open for final re view, or to tbe dance at the coliseum, given under the auspices of the Entra . Nous. The Prizes Offered. The lodges win participate In the parade as they did last' year. Lodge prizes offered ' are as follows: Most grotesque costumed, first $40; second 15; most unique unlformer, first $40; second $15: largest per cent of members In the parade, first $40; second $15; third flO; best uniformed team, first $25; second $1.V The following individual prices are offered: Most grotesque, first $10, second $5 and third $2.50; most unique, first $10. second $". and third $2.W. Next Friday evening the Mardl Gras committee will meet with tbe following lodge and society representatives at tbe offices of Wilfred Jesaup over 716 Main street: Whitewater I. O. O. F.. Demas Coe; Herman. I. O. O. F, Lewis Crome; Woodard, L O. O. F., John Lantz; Richmond I. O. O. F Charles Thomas: Coeur de Lion. K. of P.. William Johnson and George Matthews; lola K. of P.. Frank Dickinson; Triumph K. of P.. August Schroeder; Eagles. Frank Hartxler; Ancient Order Hibernians. T. C Harrington; Elks. Walter Eggemeyer; Owls. Harry Braxton; Benevolent Society of 8C Joseph. John Hafner. Sr.; Moose. Albert Morel; Knights of Golden Eagle. Joseph Beckwith. Representatives of the other lodges of tbe city nave not been selected as yet but will be In time for the meeting tomorrow evening. Plans for Decorations. At a meeting of the committee on decorations last evening at festival headquarters the representative of the Cincinnati decorative firm which had charge of tbe decorations last year, presented his plans for dressing np Main street in gala attire this year. Tbe festival colors of white and yellow will predominate with other colors additional In vueclal features of the decorations. Main street will be decorated much In the same manner as last year, although It win be more elaborate. The . Iron poles will be completely . hidden with white and yellow bunting. The bunting will be draped on the poles In such a way as form a box effect. Small incandescent light globes, may be nsed to further beautify the effect. Tbe cross wires holding up the trolley wires will be used as supports on which to hang the festival flags. In the center of each wire will' be the United States flag. Oa top of each pole will be an are KL Be tween the light a wire wa fee

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